It's not easy to test these accusations, despite the fact that every moment of the start was recorded on video and baseball creates more data than any sport. Those who have looked closely at the Boston Red Sox pitcher's forearm have not decided conclusively whether it's just sweat and rosin or if there is definitely something else going on there.

Buchholz's last start was not out of the ordinary in terms of movements. FanGraphs

So let's avoid the screen captures of sweaty forearms and try to find the spitball in the numbers. PITCHf/x gives us data for the horizontal and vertical movement of every pitch. We should be able to find the outlier in the data if it exists.

The quest for a spitball is just the quest to find a pitch that looks different. A pitch that doesn't fit in. A fastball that moves too much, since that's what caught Morris' eye.

To the right are all the fastballs from Buchholz's May first start against the Blue Jays, plotted by X and Y movement.

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